Improvement in the manufacture of bands, cords, and ropes



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L. BINNS. MANUFACTURE OF BANDS, CORDS AND ROPES.

Patented .Iune 20,1875.

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PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

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Patented'iune 20,1876.

i W Q L. BIN NS. MANUFACTURE OF BANDS, CURDS AND ROPES. No.178.987.

NiETERS. PHOTO-UTHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. DHC

UNITED STATES PATENT LEEDHAM BINNS, OF OAKENSHAW, NEAR BRADFORD,ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT-IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BANDS, CORDS, AND. ROPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 178,987, dated June20, 1876 application filed February 8, 1876. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEEDHAM 15mm, of the town of Oakenshaw, nearBradford, in the terial of any desired quality and color, as heretofore.such core and covering material being, according to one arrangement,drawn 011' straight from their sources of supply, and

having no twist put thereon in the course of manufacture; or the coremay have the covering material wrapped or twisted around it. .Over thecore produced as above described I, according to my invention, wrap incontrary directions to each other two or more binding threads or cordsof any desired material and color.

By these means I am enabled to produce bands, cords, or ropes having thecore thereof covered with material of any desired quality and color, orcombination of colors, and having binding cords or threads of anydesired material and color, or combination of colors, wrapped or twistedaround such core in contrary directions to each other, so as to producehighly ornamental efi'ects.

In manufacturing bands, cords, or ropes of the character abovedescribed, I employ machinery of a similar charaoterto that described inthe specification of Letters Patent .of the United States granted to me,dated December 9, 1873, No. 145,386.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of referenceindicate like parts, Figure 1 represents a i'ront view of machinery orapparatus constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 represents aleft-hand end View with some of the parts removed.

Fig. 3 represents a right-hand end view with some of the parts removed.Fig. irepresents a separate face View of plate 8 in which guides s and tare formed. Fig. 5 represents, on a larger scale, a portion of a bandwith part of the covering-strands removed from each end.

I form the center of the core of any desired number of strands ofmaterial, 8, passing together from a bobbin or reel, 8, or other sourceor sources of supply, whence it passes through an eye or guide, .9 andaround or over tension-knobs to the top of the wheel b, which serves asa guide, and from which it passes to a central eye or guide, 8 formed ina disk or plate of metal, 8 carried by the brackets,

and I cover the material 8 forming the center The strands s and t aredrawn together fromtheir reels or bobbins s t, or from other sources ofsupply, and are passed two or more times around the guide-wheel d, forthe purpose of obtaining a firm gripe thereon, and are then passed ontoa bobbin or beam, 10, on which the finished article is wound asproduced. The bobbin or beam it receives motion by means of a hand, alpassing partly around the pulley d, and partly around a small pulley, afixed on the axis of the bobbin or beamu, the band u? being arrangedwith a tendency to-drive the bobbin or beam a faster than is requiredfor winding the finished cord, rope, or

band thereon, but accommodating itself to the rate at which the band,cord, or rope is produced by slipping upon the pulley a. The ends ofthread or other material to form the binding cords or threads of theband, cord, or rope are taken from the bobbins or reels B (J, and passedthrough the eyes j 10 fixed in the disks j k, and thence around theknobs or buttons j 70 according to the strain desired to be put on thematerial. From the last of these knobs orbuttons j k the binding cordsor threads are passed through eyes or guides j? W, and are then fastenedto the core of the intended band, cord, or rope. When this is efl'ectedthe fork-bar l is, by hand, slid in its bearings in the uprights i 1, soas to shift the driving-strap l" ontothe driving-pulley m fixed on theshaft or axis m. On this shaft or axis m is also fixed a worm or screw,m which takes into and gives rotary motion to the toothed wheel d fixedon. the shaft or Felon.

axis 01 on which shaft is also fixed the guide' wheel (Z. On the shaftor axis m are also fixed toothed wheels on m The wheel at gears directlywith and gives rotary motion to the toothed wheel a, to which the disk jis fixed, and the toothed wheel m by means of an intermediate pinion, mgives rotary motion to the toothed wheel 0, to which the disk It isfixed, but in contrary direction to that of the toothed wheel at anddisk j. Thus the binding cord or thread from the bobbin or reel B iswrapped or wound around the core in one direction, and that from thebobbin or reel 0 is wrapped or wound around the core in the contrarydirection. The toothed wheels no are mounted on the boss or bearing a,and the disks j k are, respectively, screwed or oth erwise fixed to thewheels at o, collars 0, screwed to the boss or bearing 0, being employedto retain the wheels n 0 securely in position on the boss 0. The guidesit at their forked ends, serve to give support to the band, cord, orrope during the wrapping of the binding cords or threads around it, theband, cord, or rope passing between the two parts of such forked ends.By varying the proportions of the screw m and wheel (1 the pitch of thecovering material may be adjusted as desired.

1' would hereremark that other equivalent modes of-giving motion to thedisksj 7a in contrary directions to each other may be adopted withoutdeparting from the nature of my invention.

The several coils of band, cord, or rope, passing around the guide wheelor pulley 61, are prevented from chafing or rubbing against andoverlapping each other by means of guides v, acting in combination withsuch guidewheel or pulley d, as clearly shown at Fig. 2.

If desired, the covering-strands t of the core may be wrapped or twistedaround the core by mounting their guides and source or sources of supplyon an axis ofmotion, and causing them to rotate around the core pass ingthrough the central eye or guide at any 1. The rope, band, or cordherein described,

consisting of a core, 3, colored strands t and two or more bindingthreads or cords of any desired color or material wound thereon incontrary directions,-as and for the purpose set forth. p v

2. The combination of the guide-wheels b d, bobbins or reels 8 t u,guides s s s t t", wheels j It, bobbins or reels B 0, guides j 70tensionknolosj I0 and guides j de, all working together substantially inthe manner and for the purpose described.

3. The guide-wheel d, in combination with guides 12, the band 20 pulleya, and bobbin or beam 10, arranged and operating in manner substantiallyas and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, with. bobbins s t,'tensiou-knobs s guides 15, andguide-plate s, of

the receiving-bobbin to, having pulley 10 band a pulley d, and guides o,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LEEDHAM BINNS. WVit-nesses:

GEo. QHAs. SIM,

Oakenshaw Jlfills. ALLAN BENNY,

Oakenshaw Mills.

